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President Joe Biden said he will nominate a Black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling the vacancy left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

Candace Jackson-Akiwumi has been noted as one of the most likely potential nominees for a Supreme Court appointment under President Joe Biden.

Jackson-Akiwumi is married to her husband Eric Akiwumi, who is a Nigerian.

“I’ve made no decision except (the) person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity,” Biden said in an address from the White House.

“And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.”

Biden, speaking at a podium alongside Breyer, also indicated that he would seek a speedy nomination process, promising to name his candidate by the end of February.

The exit of Breyer, who is 83, gives Biden a likely smooth opportunity to name a replacement to the lifelong seat on the Supreme Court while his Democratic Party retains control of the Senate.

The Supreme Court is currently split between six conservatives and three liberals. Biden will now be able to nominate another liberal-leaning jurist to the court, maintaining the balance.

Breyer had been under pressure from liberals to leave in time for Biden to get his nominee through the Senate before November’s midterm elections, when Republicans are in a strong position to win majorities in Congress and would then control the approval process.

As president, Donald Trump had the rare opportunity to put no fewer than three new justices on the court, fundamentally shifting its political leaning for potentially years to come.

Biden’s one pick so far will have nowhere near that level of impact. However, the Democrat will be glad of a successful confirmation process, delivering a much needed morale boost to his party ahead of the midterms.

As an immediate reminder of the tensions that Supreme Court confirmations often provoke, Republican senior Senator Mitch McConnell warned Biden “not to outsource this important decision to the radical left.”

“To the degree that President Biden received a mandate, it was to govern from the middle,” McConnell said.

In his resignation letter, published Thursday, Breyer underlined the coordinated plan to ensure that the succession moves with minimal upheaval, confirming that he will stay on the court through the packed current term — but not before his replacement is ready.

“I intend this decision to take effect when the court rises for the summer recess this year (typically late June or early July) assuming that by then my successor has been nominated and confirmed,” he wrote.

– Campaign pledge –
Biden promised to put an African-American woman on the court back when he was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The vow was part of his vital outreach to the Black community, which became a crucial component in ultimately defeating a crowded field of Democratic rivals and then unseating Trump.

Biden put the first Black and Asian woman, Kamala Harris, on the ticket as his vice president, and since taking office has also pushed hard to place more women and ethnic minorities as senior judges.

Biden said that in the search for Breyer’s replacement, he would be asking Harris to help, describing her as “an exceptional lawyer” and noting she was a former member of the Senate judiciary committee — a body he himself led while serving as a senator.

Among the leading candidates to replace Breyer are Ketanji Brown Jackson, a US Court of Appeals judge, and Leondra Kruger of the California Supreme Court.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden had “already started reviewing potential candidates” and the nomination process should “happen as expeditiously as possible.”

Of the 115 justices who served on the Supreme Court, only five have been women, including three today — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett. Only two have been Black men, one of whom is current Justice Clarence Thomas.

Breyer is the oldest justice on the court and was nominated in 1994 by then Democratic president Bill Clinton.

Praising Breyer, Biden highlighted his bipartisan spirit, saying he “patiently sought common ground” and was “a model public servant in a time of great division in this country.”

AFP

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/biden-to-appoint-nigerian-woman-us-supreme-court-justice/%3famp

The appointee is not Yoruba though but married to a Yoruba Christian, We Youruba christians lead YMM follow

Yoruba Christian Lagba!

Ibadan expressway gutter Media.
candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

All the best to her

waterbrown24:
Ibadan expressway gutter Media.

candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

Candace Jackson-Akinwumi

Akinwunmi must be an American aboriginal name

Celebrate with others so that you can also be celebrated when it comes to your turn

helinues:
Akinwunmi must be an American aboriginal name

Celebrate with others so that you can also be celebrated when it comes to your turn

I'm sure you didn't read the article.

she is married to a yoruba-man.

waterbrown24:
Ibadan expressway gutter Media.

candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

She's happily married to Eric Akiwumi of Yoruba descent.

You can look up their pictures together during her inauguration.

The Economist magazine reported someone else while CNN included her among top favourites of HE Biden.

I wish her all the best and sincerely hope she wins.
Sincerely, it's a milestone.
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This woman blackness is like someone inner Nyashi

FreeStuffsNG:
She's happily married to an Eric Akiwumi,likely an American/Nigerian of Yoruba descent.

You can look up their pictures together during her inauguration.

Achievements of wife are the same as husband . Vice versa

Congratulations

helinues:
Achievements of wife are the same as husband . Vice versa

101% correct sir. That's why I reminded him that she's happily married to her Yoruba husband and carries his name unlike some of my sisters based in the same US like Sefi Ata, Chimamanda Adichie, both married to Nigerians but chose not to use their husbands names.

My brother Joe is just a puppet... Clyburn and Obama are in control on this Supreme Court pick.

And they have picked Judge Michelle Childs

This is what happens when a foolish n cursed tribe is full of hate. The same thing you celebrate daily here about your tribe is what you are castigating.

For those that claim Yoruba started the hate, here is one I have never seen before. I know the person am quoting is not Hausa Fulanis Ikwerre n any other tribe.

Only one foolish tribe is filled with endemic hate n chronic bigotry in Nigeria. Yes your guess is as good as mine, the jews from hellfire, the wretched south that is it.

waterbrown24:
Ibadan expressway gutter Media.

candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

Fully blooded American not Nigerian,we take glory for wat we don't appreciate

waterbrown24:
Ibadan expressway gutter Media.

candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

this yeebow human don dey crying, i can help you if you need handkerchief or bucket because your tear wey full the ground fit make person fall ooh

God bless you ma. God bless omoluabis. God bless Yoruba race. God bless every lover of some one's progress. We are one of the best nation's in the world and we have what it takes to be one of the best countries in the world. Oduduwa country comes 2031.

waterbrown24:
Ibadan expressway gutter Media.

candace is African american and not a Nigerian..

But if she were to be an igbo person you will be jumping up and down the thread. Bigotry makes one stupid and it doesn’t matter your tribe

Invictuse:
This is what happens when a foolish n cursed tribe if full of hate. The same thing you celebrate daily here about your tribe is what you are castigating.

For those that claim Yoruba start the hate here is one I have never seen before. I know the person am quoting is not Hausa Fulanis Ikwerre n any other. Only one foolish tribe is filled with endemic n chronic bigotry in Nigeria. Yes you guess is as good as mine, the jews from hellfire, the wretched south that's it.

Bitch* I couldn't understand a single word you just typed. Is this education you guys brag about in yoruba-land? just take a look @ your grammatical sentence....Agbaya!

Majesty2:
this yeebow human don dey crying, i can help you if you need handkerchief or bucket because your tear wey full the ground fit make person fall ooh

mcheew olodo!

She is not Yoruba, she is an in-law. Yoruba do not behave like the noisy neighbors.


-Viper

Leff dem leff dem, make dem dey beat their chests blue and black over another man's filage while dem filage dey in ruin.

FBI attention has been drawn to this topic.

If de woman nor make am, na una fault.

ViperAda:
She is not Yoruba, she is an in-law. Yoruba do not behave like the noisy neighbors.


-Viper

helinues:
Achievements of wife are the same as husband . Vice versa

no o not USA of all places where every man with him kettle for marriage

I celebrate her let's be honest her husband is the Yoruba here not she

You can not understand a single word from all you quoted and lack intuition to comprehend it as well but you have the effrontery to question my grammar ?!

Pig, if I was your father you can be assured I will toss you into the hottest part of hellfire because your life is doomed before it even started. Igbos are some funny clowns, really.

Can anyone believe the fool that wrote what is below is querying the grammar of anyone ?!

waterbrown24:
Bitch* I couldn't understand a single word you just typed. Is this education you guys brag about in yoruba-land? just take a look @ your grammatical sentence....Agbaya!

Yoruba Amaka

Just imagine the dullard telling me to go learn how to construct sentences ?! I leave you to your tribesmen to judge what brand of rettarded pig you are, but trust if I was your father I will ensure you do not live another day to type this with intention at correcting any error.

waterbrown24:
yaribanza pig, go and learn how to construct a simple sentence and stop spamming my mentions with your utter nonsense, I dnt have time for an afonja programmed e-idiot like you..

Congratulations in advance ma.More heights to attain.

She's actually an African American who married the son of an immigrant from Nigeria which is how she got her last name. She has no biological connection with Nigeria.

helinues:
Akinwunmi must be an American aboriginal name

Celebrate with others so that you can also be celebrated when it comes to your turn

Invictuse:
Just imagine the dullard telling me to go learn how to construct sentences ?! I leave you to your tribesmen to judge what brand of rettarded pig you are, but trust if I was your father I will ensure you do not live another day to type this with intention at correcting any error.

Bullshit from a slum candidate. mere looking at your write-up one can easily deduce between me and you who is fucking retarded..

An Afonja desecrated blood such as you can never be my father. If a proper DNA test is carried out to ascertain your paternity; 99% chances the oblong head who fathered you, is not your dad, omo ale.!

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